Basil Hall (civil servant)

Sir Basil Hall KCB MC
HM Procurator General and Treasury Solicitor
In office 1975-1980
Personal details
Born	(1918-01-02)2 January 1918 Finsbury Park, London, England
Died	2 May 2011(2011-05-02) (aged 93)
Military career
Service / branch	27th Lancers
Battles / wars	World War II
Awards	Military Cross

Sir Basil Brodribb Hall, KCB, MC (2 January 1918, Finsbury Park – 2 May 2011) was a British civil servant.[1]

Hall was educated at Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood. He became an articled clerk with Gibson & Weldon in 1935; and was admitted solicitor in 1942. During World War II he served with the 27th Lancers. When peace returned he joined the Civil Service's Treasury Solicitor’s Department; and rose to become Treasury Solicitor from 1975 until 1980. He was Chairman of the Civil Service Appeal Board from 1981 to 1984; and the UK Member of the European Commission of Human Rights from 1985 to 1993.[2]

Notes

1. ‘HALL, Sir Basil (Brodribb)’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 2014 accessed 18 March 2016
2. "Sir Basil Hall". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 18 July 2019.

Legal offices
Preceded by Sir Henry Ware	HM Procurator General and Treasury Solicitor 1975–1980	Succeeded by Sir Michael Kerry